Jamestown is pleased to announce its Young Professionals Program, a seasonal lecture series that provides young professionals interested in international security with the opportunity to engage with current and former top U.S. policy makers, diplomats and Jamestown analysts. Each series will be dedicated to a... MORE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888     The Jamestown Foundation is proud to announce the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Carpenter, Virtual Procurement Services CEO Scott Robins, as well as... MORE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888     With deep sadness, The Jamestown Foundation marks the passing of Dr. Marshall I. Goldman, a well-known economist, author, university professor and Kremlinologist. Dr. Goldman faithfully served on Jamestown’s Board of Directors for over a decade,... MORE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888   With deep sadness, The Jamestown Foundation marks the passing of Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a world-renowned international affairs expert and the National Security Advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Brzezinski was a member of Jamestown’s... MORE

With last week’s revelation that the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Jokhar Tsarnaev, were in fact ethnic Chechens, US journalists, analysts, law enforcement and the authorities have been scrambling to find an explanation for the tragic event, which left three people dead and nearly... MORE

Coming from obscurity, Mangal Bagh Afridi rose to power and notoriety by controlling Lashkar-e-Islam  (LI- the Army of Islam), the biggest and most influential militant group in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency. Khyber Agency is the most strategically important of the seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in... MORE

Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) forces, the country’s elite anti-terror police, achieved a much awaited breakthrough barely within a week’s time in late April this year, when they apprehended three of the most wanted terror masterminds from different areas of the Dhaka Division. The RAB’s... MORE

Background   On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Said Bahaji, one of two known members of the Hamburg cell, remains at large. [1] Said Bahaji was born in Lower Saxony, Germany to a Moroccan father and a German mother in... MORE